Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Ticats Conference Call

Dueling articles from the Spec and the National Post on the Ticats preseason call. Without the stadium issue, I'm not sure the Post would have bothered, but again publicity of any sort is good. Probably the most important information to be gleaned from them is that the Cats should get 1700 new season tickets this year and had a 94% renewal rate. Of course they never say what there season ticket numbers actually are. If the Cats had a 12,000 subscriber base last year they lost 720 season tickets from previous year subscribers. If they had a 15,000 subscriber base last year the lost 900. So maybe the Cats are up close to 1,000 season tickets this year, or maybe not.

Quoting from the Edwards piece: "Mitchell said the team had record revenues in 2009 and looks set to exceed those numbers in 2010 by more than 10 per cent. But the team will continue to lose money, as it has since owner Bob Young took over the team in 2003." So that's good news. Considering there is little inflation right now, both for player salaries and everything else, that's good for reducing the team's loss per year. Whatever that is.

When I get back from Germany this week, I'm going to pick up a pair of Labour Day tickets, seeing as single game tickets are now available to season ticket subscribers. Apparently the price to season ticket holders for extra tickets is the same for Labour Day as for the other games (and is at the season ticket price) so that's an excellent deal. I figured they would be $5 more, which they probably should. I probably would have bought more, but the Ticats apparent love of stadiums beside highways in the middle of nowhere is annoying me. So there you go Bob, lost ticket revenue from Tigercatatonia, maybe more naming rights money from Primus.